Reproductive Health

House Assistant Majority Leader and Davao City Rep. Karlo Alexei Nograles yesterday bewailed attempts to link the worsening hunger in the country with the absence of a law that supports the use of contraceptives through the so-called Reproductive Health law, as he pointed out that the government’s failure to properly manage and harness its rich…

European Union officials announced on Friday they would provide an initial fund of 35 million Euros to help poor Filipinos gain free access to contraceptives and strongly backed the controversial Reproductive Health bill.

MANILA, Philippines –  The United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA) urged yesterday member states and development partners to support access to reproductive health for women.

MANILA, Philippines — The 15th Family Recollection of the Mission Angels of Fr. Jerry Orbos, SVD, will be held on Palm Sunday, April 17 at the Meralco Theatre, courtesy of Amb. Manuel Lopez (Mission Angels president) and his wife Marites, from 8 am to 1 pm.

MANILA, Philippines – Supporters of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill have blamed the country’s ballooning population for the reported rise in hunger incidence in the last three months.

Now some members of Congress want to get a piece of the action. I’m referring to the move of the House of Representatives to investigate the controversy involving Willie Revillame who asked a six-year-old boy to gyrate like a sexy dancer in his program. Revillame and the gleeful audience egged the boy on despite the…

MANILA, Philippines –  A member of the United Nations delegation visiting the country underscored yesterday the importance of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, citing global evidence of improvement of countries after putting similar measures in place.

ADVOCATES of the controversial Reproductive health bill have found new allies that would help in convincing the government to pass the proposed law and these are the various protestant churches and denominations in the country.

MANILA (Reuters) – The Philippines, where an average of 11 women a day die giving birth, could lower its high maternal death rate by having a reproductive health policy, a visiting United Nations delegation said on Friday.

Throughout the Philippines in March there have been vibrant marches and celebrations for National Women’s Month. The Catholic Bishops’ Conference of the Philippines has also joined in with marches and protests of its own, but unfortunately these are to protest a proposed law that would actually provide a better life for women. The Bishops’ animus…

MANILA, Philippines – Interior Secretary Jesse Robredo yesterday called on local government units to refrain from enacting ordinances prohibiting the purchase of contraceptives without prescription.   He said local government units have no power to issue such ordinances.  

Members of the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines (CBCP) returned to the negotiating table with Palace officials yesterday, more than a month after pulling out from the dialogs initiated by the government, to iron out the differences between the Church and the State concerning President Aquino’s five-pronged Responsible Parenthood (RP) bill.

CATHOLIC bishops meeting with President Benigno Aquino III and his Cabinet officials acknowledged for the first time that condoms do not cause abortions, presidential spokesman Edwin Lacierda said Wednesday.

MANILA, Philippines—Not all religious organizations are against the reproductive health (RH) bill in Congress.

It is quite plain and clear now. The Aquino administration is overly concerned with the “numbers game” – the number of people supporting or opposing a particular stand, a planned move or a proposed measure. It is still on a campaign mode up to now, always watching out for survey results or the size of…

House members backing the Reproductive Health bill called former Chief Justice Hilario Davide an “agent of falsehood” for supposedly launching a black propaganda against the bill as the Church stepped up its campaign against the measure that has the backing of the Aquino administration.

MANILA, Philippines – House Minority Leader Edcel Lagman on Monday scored the Catholic Church for opposing the enactment of the Reproductive Health Bill in Congress and depriving women access to family planning methods including artificial forms of contraception.

A proponent of the controversial Reproductive Health Bill belittled the Inter-Faith rally of the anti-RH groups, saying most Catholics favor the measure which promotes the use of artificial birth control.

SILANG, Cavite, Philippines  – Malacañang maintained yesterday that the Aquino administration’s position on responsible parenthood would not change despite the rally organized by the Catholic Church the other day to campaign against the Reproductive Health (RH) bill.

THE authors of the reproductive health bill have dropped a provision favoring two-child families and gave parents the option to opt out of sex education classes for their children, and in a bid to reduce opposition to the population management measure.

THOUSANDS of pro-life advocates and members of various religious groups on Friday converged at the Quirino Grandstand in Manila’s Rizal Park (Luneta) to show their opposition to the reproductive health (RH) bill pending in Congress.

Over 200 faculty members from the Ateneo de Manila University (ADMU) and the University of the Philippines (UP) declared their support for the Reproductive Health (RH) bill and urged lawmakers to immediately pass the bill in Congress.

MANILA, Philippines – Academicians and scientists decried the misuse of science and the abuse of power by some educators in waging a propaganda campaign against House Bill 4244, the Reproductive Health (RH) Bill now being deliberated on in Congress.

According to latest reports, the principal author of the RH Bill (HB 4244) has introduced some amendments. This move may look like a tactical retreat as the opposition gains ground. But it may also be just a “one step backward two steps forward” strategy. Indeed, a cursory look at the changes shows that they were…

MANILA, Philippines – A public hearing held yesterday on an Ayala Alabang ordinance banning the sale of condoms and other contraceptives without a prescription became heated as the Commission on Human Rights (CHR) and former health secretary Esperanza Cabral faced off against former senator Aquilino Pimentel.

MANILA, Philippines – Health Secretary Enrique Ona has reiterated his call for the passage of the Reproductive Health (RH) bill, saying that poor families that wish to limit the number of their children should be assisted by the government.

My deep sympathies to my Japanese friends and the Japanese people generally. What a most horrendous disaster. One can hardly encompass it. Do you realize that the impact is now at the level of the whole Philippine economy for a year? An economy of US$190 billion is being approached by losses in Japan now estimated…

MANILA, Philippines (PNA) — The Department of Health (DOH) continues to rally behind giving couples an informed choice in choosing the number, spacing, and timing of their children.

CEBU, Philippines – Several groups which composed the Catholics for Reproductive Health (C4RH) held their national teleconference in major cities of Manila, Baguio, Davao and Cebu to show that majority of Filipino Catholics are clamoring for RH services contrary to the claim of the Church hierarchy.

The Philippine population has been growing at a high pace compared to neighboring countries. At the same time, the economies of neighbors with which our country is often compared have been growing faster than ours over the last few decades. Part of their success comes from their ability to deal with their population growth.